Scott's : Current News: Aug 6, 2008

9:17 AM

August 06, 2008 Hot Trends

Designer Cities: Superstar Urban Planning

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:37:43 PDT
Architect Zaha Hadid's plan to redevelop Kartal, a postwar industrial area amid Istanbul's Asian sprawl, is the latest example in a new trend in urban development, in which a visionary designer creates a detailed concept for an entire neighborhood.

Visualizing Innovation and Cultural Data Flows

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:36:18 PDT
Lev Manivich is an author and Professor of Visual Arts at UCSD who’s looking for new ways to create quantitative measures of cultural innovation and visualize cultural flows and how trends change over time.

Condo bus tours - Phoenix Arizona news, breaking news, local

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:12:12 PDT
Local Phoenix, Tempe and Scottsdale bus tours of high rise and loft condominiums with pricing, market and architectural info on buildings like Optima Biltmore, Summit at Copper Square, Center Point, Artisan and more.

ADX Indicator in Forex Trading - Video

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:33:41 PDT
Today we’re going to learn about the ADX indicator or as its referred to as the average directional movement index in our metatrader platform and how we can use this tool for developing our forex trading strategy. The average directional Index or ADX, is an indicator that is use to determine the strength of a prevailing trend...

Strategies, goals and quick wins: expert interview

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:30:06 PDT
I was lucky enough to have a small involvement in the Truth About Email Marketing book project, so was able to persuade author Simms Jenkins (pictured left) to talk with me about strategic problems for email marketers, quick fixes and the industry as a whole. Simms is CEO of email marketing services firm, BrightWave Marketing, the brains behind EmailStatCenter.com and a columnist for iMediaConnection. He has a particularly strong understanding of organizational and strategic issues. So it pays

Morgan Stanley to freeze home-equity credit lines: report

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:26:03 PDT
Morgan Stanley (MS.N) told thousands of clients this week that they will not be allowed to withdraw money on their home-equity credit lines, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the situation. Most of the clients had properties that have lost value, the agency reported, citing a person who declined to be identified.

Weaning off the pasture crack

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:13:16 PDT
Scarily, corporate dairying is all the rage in New Zealand. It's like a vine that's taken hold and crept across the land. Gone are the days of most farmers gently tending their clover and knowing their cows by name. Today it's all about chemical fertiliser, and output output output. Quality of soil and product be damned. In the stampede to convert land to pasture, forests are being massacred. Tens of thousands of hectares of forests have already been felled and another half million hectares are

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9:03 AM

Mauritania officer takes over president palace

Source: Washington Post

Mauritania forces stage coup after officers sacked

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.

Soldiers gathered at the presidential palace after Abdallahi replaced senior army officers during a political crisis in the northwest African country, one of the continent's newest oil producers which also mines iron, copper and gold.

A "State Council" led by one of the sacked officers, former presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, said Abdallahi was now "former president" and annulled his previous decree sacking Abdelaziz and the heads of the army and Gendarmerie.

The communique, described as the council's "Statement No. 1," was broadcast by Gulf-based al-Arabiya television. State television and radio in Nouakchott had both ceased broadcasting earlier in the day.

Abdallahi won elections last year and took over from a military junta that had ruled since it toppled President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup in 2005.

"The security agents of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion) came to our home around 9.20 (5:20 a.m. EDT) and took away my father," Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi, the president's daughter, told Reuters.

A presidency official who declined to be named said the president, prime minister and interior minister had been arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

Largely desert Mauritania, a former French colony of more than 3 million people, straddles black and Arab Africa.

Abdallahi replaced one government in May following criticism over the government's response to soaring food prices and to attacks over the last year carried out by al Qaeda's north African arm.

But the new government resigned last month in the face of a proposed no-confidence vote.

A new one was formed but without the opposition Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and Islamist Tawassoul parties which had formed part of the previous government.

This week most of the members of parliament belonging to Abdallahi's PNDD-ADIL party walked out from the party en masse, in a move some political sources said were supported by senior military officials.